Centos question

I've loaded Centos 6.5 CD image.

1. What is the name of the File Manager?
2. How do I get root privilages for the file manager?

 

Gnome 2 I assume?
Nautilus, launch it as root.
Mrk

 

After some investigation I found that it is Nautilus.
However the usual command su nautilus
gives me this:

Which is fine but after I type in the password instead of getting root privilages I get this:

 

Type "su" to get root privileges.
The start a text editor (gedit?) and open the "sudoers" file which in /etc if I remember correctly.
Find the line beginning with ROOT and with some ALL in the line.
Copy it to a new line and replace ROOT with your username.
Save the file.
Next time, sudo should work.

 

Actually I found this to work as well.

I type in su and put in my password and then sudo for specific application.
Or is it really unsafe to go root everytime?

 

Hi,

Your user is not in the list of sudoers
While under root, do visudo and under the root add your own user:
user ALL=(ALL) ALL

 

Can you be more specific?

 

http://www.centos.org/docs/4/4.5/Security_Guide/s3-wstation-privileges-limitroot-sudo.html

There is a specific example on the CentOS guide page above for the case where the user account can run any command, and an example where you can limit the user account to specific commands (e.g. shutdown).

Is that what you meant or did you mean you want step by step instructions?

 

Yes the link above answers your request of specificity (http://www.centos.org/docs/4/4.5/Security_Guide/s3-wstation-privileges-limitroot-sudo.html).

Furthermore, if you happen to be afraid of the given warning (in the provided link):

You can always set the by default 5min period to 0.
In visudo, replace the line:

By

This will remove your sudo rights after each performed action under sudo.